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Scientists uncover the oldest hand-held wooden tools ever found, shifting the story of early humans

"We have discovered the oldest wooden tools known to date." ...
Ancient Origins

150,000-Year-Old Rainforest Discovery Rewrites Early Human History

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...
Smithsonian Magazine

15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

Malaria may have shaped human evolution for thousands of years

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...
Science Daily

Archaeologists uncover lost land bridge that may rewrite human history

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...
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Human origins rewritten after major DNA breakthrough

For decades, scientists believed modern humans came from one main ancestral group in Africa, an idea known as the 'Out of Africa' model. But new DNA research suggests the story may be far more ...

The first signs of human cremation may date back 100,000 years

The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the ...
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Million‑year‑old tools reveal early human sea crossing near ‘Hobbit’s’ island

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...